Harvard
Harvard conservators repair books
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- Harvard conservators repair books
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- 1:01
- Date posted
- 11 years ago
- Description
- Conservators in Collections Care repair a book with a broken cover to prevent further damage. Protecting Harvard’s special collections of rare books, manuscripts, prints, drawings, maps, photographs, and other treasures is the mission of Harvard Library Preservation Services.
To read more, visit http://news.harvard.edu/gazette/story/2016/04/guarding-the-dazzle-of-the-past/.
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- Building Resiliency in an Age of Terrorism: Public Health Perspectives
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- 1:01:51
- Date posted
- 11 years ago
- Description
- A series of terrorist attacks — including recent bombings in Belgium — has shaken the public’s sense of security as they go about the most mundane tasks of daily life. Images of carnage at subway stations, restaurants, workplaces, concerts and sporting events have flashed across the world’s social media and traditional news outlets. Afterwards, questions inevitably surface about what could have been done to prevent attacks in the first place, while people are encouraged to carry on with their usual lives. But has the shadow of terrorism become part of that “new normal” and, if so, what are the public health implications? This Forum — which took place a week after the 3rd anniversary of the Boston Marathon bombings — asked what makes a society resilient in the face of attacks or perceived threats. Experts in homeland security, psychological resiliency, crisis leadership, and disaster preparedness and response participated.
Presented April 25, 2016, in Collab...
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- Leadership to Impact Today’s Global Challenges | Helene Gayle | Voices in Leadership
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- 34:40
- Date posted
- 11 years ago
- Description
- Helene Gayle, CEO of McKinsey Social Initiative, spoke at the Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health as part of the Voices in Leadership series on April 21, 2016.
Watch the entire “Voices in Leadership” series at www.hsph.me/voices.
The Voices in Leadership webcast discussion series at Harvard T. H Chan School of Public Health invites leaders to speak about their experiences making decisions that affect global health. Highly interactive and candid, the series is produced in The Leadership Studio for a student audience. The high-definition webcast is streamed live and posted for future viewing. Students learn from experienced leaders about decisions that were effective, decisions that failed, and which decisions, if any, could have been made differently. Watch the entire series at www.hsph.me/voices.
Helene D. Gayle is CEO of McKinsey Social Initiative, a nonprofit organization that implements programs that bring together varied stakehold...
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- Michael Pollan | One Writer's Trip || Radcliffe Institute
- Runtime
- 15:53
- Date posted
- 11 years ago
- Description
- As part of the 2015–2016 Fellows’ Presentation Series at the Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study, Michael Pollan RI ’16, the Suzanne Young Murray Fellow, delivered an autobiographical talk—"One Writer’s Trip”—about his thinking and writing on nature as we find it closer to home: the garden, the farm, the table, and most recently, the altered states of consciousness that certain plants and fungi allow us to achieve. These excerpts are from that talk.
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- The Wild West of Star Formation | CfA
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- 57:19
- Date posted
- 11 years ago
- Description
- We saddle up to explore the extreme center of our Milky Way galaxy - one of the wildest sections of the outer-space frontier. Our Galactic center is a chaotic region containing dense gas, stars, and the biggest bully around these parts: a supermassive black hole. The normal rules for star formation don't apply here, and understanding why will help us to understand star formation throughout the rest of our wild universe. Speaker: Cara Battersby. Animations credit: ESO. Used under Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License.
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- Health Care Inequalities in America: The Need for Continuing Reform
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- 55:16
- Date posted
- 11 years ago
- Description
- Over the last two years, we have seen major expansions in health care coverage through both federal and state insurance exchanges, as well as by expanding Medicaid coverage. This Forum examined whether these efforts to extend coverage have improved the health care experiences of low-income Americans and have narrowed the gap in access to high-quality care between themselves and other Americans. The discussion drew on the findings of a new poll by NPR, the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation, and Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health that looked at patients’ perspectives on health care over the last two years, with a focus on the reported experiences of low-income Americans. Through this discussion, panelists identified a future agenda for eliminating inequalities in care.
Presented April 20, 2016, in Collaboration with the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation and NPR.
Watch the entire series from The Forum at Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health at www.ForumHS...
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- Alice Lyons | Dysfluency || Radcliffe Institute
- Runtime
- 31:45
- Date posted
- 11 years ago
- Description
- As part of the 2015–2016 Fellows’ Presentation Series at the Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study, the poet Alice Lyons RI ’16 recites a selection of her poems.
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- Drug Trials: Challenges for Alzheimer’s and Other Urgent Needs
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- 1:04:09
- Date posted
- 11 years ago
- Description
- This Forum explored the challenges and complexities of drug trials, and how they impact disease treatment and prevention — particularly for conditions that currently have little or no therapeutic options. As a case study, the panel discussed Alzheimer’s and several drugs in development for that disease, but also addressed broader concerns related to the pharmaceutical testing pipeline for unmet medical needs as a whole. This event was presented April 15, 2016 in partnership with HHMI Tangled Bank Studios, in collaboration with STAT, and in association with NOVA.
Watch the entire series from The Forum at Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health at www.ForumHSPH.org.
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- Alexander (Sasha) Wait Zaranek | Tiling the Genome || Radcliffe Institute
- Runtime
- 41:44
- Date posted
- 11 years ago
- Description
- “Tiling the Genome: Naming the Parts of Your Genome That Make You You”
As part of the DNA Lecture Series at the Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study, Alexander (Sasha) Wait Zaranek suggests that, someday soon, doctors may use the information from individuals’ own DNA to realize precision medicine.
Zaranek is the chief scientist at Curoverse Inc. and the director of informatics at the Harvard Personal Genome Project.
Introduction by Jeantine E. Lunshof, visiting fellow in genetics at the Harvard Medical School.
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- Comic Book Heroine Senator Elizabeth Warren | Voices in Leadership
- Runtime
- 0:57
- Date posted
- 11 years ago
- Description
- Elizabeth Warren, United States Senator for Massachusetts, spoke at the Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health as part of the Voices in Leadership series on April 8, 2016.
Watch the entire “Voices in Leadership” series at www.hsph.me/voices.
The Voices in Leadership webcast discussion series at Harvard T. H Chan School of Public Health invites leaders to speak about their experiences making decisions that affect global health. Highly interactive and candid, the series is produced in The Leadership Studio for a student audience. The high-definition webcast is streamed live and posted for future viewing. Students learn from experienced leaders about decisions that were effective, decisions that failed, and which decisions, if any, could have been made differently. Watch the entire series at www.hsph.me/voices.
Elizabeth Warren is the senior United States Senator from Massachusetts, elected in 2012. She was the driving force behind the crea...
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- Why It Is All Personal for Senator Elizabeth Warren | Voices in Leadership
- Runtime
- 0:58
- Date posted
- 11 years ago
- Description
- Elizabeth Warren, United States Senator for Massachusetts, spoke at the Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health as part of the Voices in Leadership series on April 8, 2016.
Watch the entire “Voices in Leadership” series at www.hsph.me/voices.
The Voices in Leadership webcast discussion series at Harvard T. H Chan School of Public Health invites leaders to speak about their experiences making decisions that affect global health. Highly interactive and candid, the series is produced in The Leadership Studio for a student audience. The high-definition webcast is streamed live and posted for future viewing. Students learn from experienced leaders about decisions that were effective, decisions that failed, and which decisions, if any, could have been made differently. Watch the entire series at www.hsph.me/voices.
Elizabeth Warren is the senior United States Senator from Massachusetts, elected in 2012. She was the driving force behind the crea...
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- Meet Root: The Robot that Brings Coding to Life
- Runtime
- 3:37
- Date posted
- 11 years ago
- Description
- Computational thinking and programming underlie the digital world around us – yet K-16 teachers have been challenged to find the right teaching tool to instill coding and programming skills in beginners of a wide age range. Recognizing the pressing need for young students to be digitally literate and the remarkable educational power of robots, a team at the Wyss Institute for Biologically Inspired Engineering has developed Root, a coding robot that will engage students at an early age and guide the growth of their coding skills. By programming Root through exciting activities and games, today’s coding students will be tomorrow’s digital innovators.
For more information, please visit: http://wyss.harvard.edu/viewpage/629
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- Harvard researcher on Native American running, from prehistory to the present-day Boston Marathon
- Runtime
- 2:26
- Date posted
- 11 years ago
- Description
- In anticipation of the 2016 Boston Marathon, Harvard paleoanthropologist Daniel Lieberman and Chris Sockalexis, relative of 1912 Olympian Andrew Sockalexis, give a brief overview of the diverse traditions of endurance running in Native American cultures. From the Arctic Circle to Cape Horn, Native Americans have run long distances to hunt, to deliver messages, and to celebrate rituals. Lieberman says it's no surprise that the history of modern competitive running is peppered with elite Native American runners, such as Tom Longboat (Onondaga Nation), who won the 1907 Boston Marathon and competed in the 1908 Olympics at London; and Ellison "Tarzan" Brown (Narragansett Nation), winner of the Boston Marathon in 1936 and 1939, and competitor in the Olympics at Berlin in 1936.
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- Fighting for Change in the U.S. Senate | Elizabeth Warren | Voices in Leadership
- Runtime
- 47:22
- Date posted
- 11 years ago
- Description
- Elizabeth Warren, United States Senator for Massachusetts, spoke at the Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health as part of the Voices in Leadership series on April 8, 2016.
Watch the entire “Voices in Leadership” series at www.hsph.me/voices.
The Voices in Leadership webcast discussion series at Harvard T. H Chan School of Public Health invites leaders to speak about their experiences making decisions that affect global health. Highly interactive and candid, the series is produced in The Leadership Studio for a student audience. The high-definition webcast is streamed live and posted for future viewing. Students learn from experienced leaders about decisions that were effective, decisions that failed, and which decisions, if any, could have been made differently. Watch the entire series at www.hsph.me/voices.
Elizabeth Warren is the senior United States Senator from Massachusetts, elected in 2012. She was the driving force behind the crea...
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- THE POET’S VOICE: Ross Gay & Harmony Holiday | Woodberry Poetry Room
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- 1:09:34
- Date posted
- 11 years ago
- Description
- This reading brings together two acoustically-pioneering and politically-acute poets, Ross Gay (A Catalog of Unabashed Gratitude, 2015) and Harmony Holiday (Go Find Your Father/A Famous Blues, 2015), whose work sings “a necessary blues for all breathing beings" and offers a radical catalog of gratitudes.
For additional information, visit hcl.harvard.edu/poetryroom.
Date: March 2, 2016, at Houghton Library, Harvard University.
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- THE POET’S VOICE: Anne Boyer & Robin Coste Lewis | Woodberry Poetry Room
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- 1:20:14
- Date posted
- 11 years ago
- Description
- This reading brings together two poet-thinkers, Robin Coste Lewis (author of Voyage of the Venus Sable, 2015) and Anne Boyer (author of Garments Against Women, 2015, and the work-in-progress “Death and the Maiden”) who are engaged in considering the production/ construction of personhood, gender, race and meaning. This reading offers the audience an opportunity to encounter two powerful minds and makers in the midst of discovering distinct forms (and modes) of resistance to specific political and cultural economies. The event is introduced by Fanny Howe and Nathaniel Otting (a.k.a. Nathaniel Weaver), and made possible by the Catherine L. Morrissey Memorial Fund.
For additional information, visit hcl.harvard.edu/poetryroom.
Date: March 9, 2016, at the Edison Newman Room, Houghton Library.
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- WPR RECORDING SESSION: Martin Corless-Smith | Woodberry Poetry Room
- Runtime
- 47:16
- Date posted
- 11 years ago
- Description
- Martin Corless-Smith records the entirety of his recent collection, Bitter Green (Fence Books, 2015), a text that boldly reinhabits the lyrical self, reclaiming its dynamism, elasticity, magnitude and gravity. The event is introduced by poet and translator Boyd Nielson, author of Beautiful Enemies and The Hills of Dorchester.
For additional information, visit hcl.harvard.edu/poetryroom.
Date: April 7, 2016, at the Woodberry Poetry Room, Harvard University.
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- Jim Lahey, Elasticity and Bread: Science and Cooking Public Lecture Series 2015
- Runtime
- 1:12:58
- Date posted
- 11 years ago
- Description
- Enroll in Science & Cooking: From Haute Cuisine to Soft Matter Science from HarvardX at https://www.edx.org/course/science-cooking-haute-cuisine-soft-harvardx-spu27-1x
Top chefs and Harvard researchers explore how everyday cooking and haute cuisine can illuminate basic principles in physics and engineering, and vice versa.
The recording of these lectures was supported by the Harvard MRSEC program of the National Science Foundation under award DMR-1420570 MRSEC (http://www.mrsec.harvard.edu/), SEAS (http://www.seas.harvard.edu/), and HarvardX.
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- Bryan and Michael Voltaggio: Emulsions and Foams, Science and Cooking Public Lecture Series 2015
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- 1:14:39
- Date posted
- 11 years ago
- Description
- Enroll in Science & Cooking: From Haute Cuisine to Soft Matter Science from HarvardX at https://www.edx.org/course/science-cooking-haute-cuisine-soft-harvardx-spu27-1x
Top chefs and Harvard researchers explore how everyday cooking and haute cuisine can illuminate basic principles in physics and engineering, and vice versa.
The recording of these lectures was supported by the Harvard MRSEC program of the National Science Foundation under award DMR-1420570 MRSEC (http://www.mrsec.harvard.edu/), SEAS (http://www.seas.harvard.edu/), and HarvardX.
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- Tara Whitsitt: Fermentation on Wheels, Science and Cooking Public Lecture Series 2015
- Runtime
- 1:10:32
- Date posted
- 11 years ago
- Description
- Enroll in Science & Cooking: From Haute Cuisine to Soft Matter Science from HarvardX at https://www.edx.org/course/science-cooking-haute-cuisine-soft-harvardx-spu27-1x
Top chefs and Harvard researchers explore how everyday cooking and haute cuisine can illuminate basic principles in physics and engineering, and vice versa.
The recording of these lectures was supported by the Harvard MRSEC program of the National Science Foundation under award DMR-1420570 MRSEC (http://www.mrsec.harvard.edu/), SEAS (http://www.seas.harvard.edu/), and HarvardX.
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- The Long-run Effect of Maternity Leave Benefits on Mental Health: Evidence from European Countries
- Runtime
- 1:03:09
- Date posted
- 11 years ago
- Description
- Maternity leave policies have known effects on short-term child outcomes. However, little is known about the long-run impact of such leaves on women’s health as they age. This seminar examines whether maternity leave policies have an effect on women's mental health in older age. Data for women age 50 years and above from countries in the Survey of Health, Ageing, and Retirement in Europe (SHARE) are linked to data on maternity leave legislation from 1960 onwards. A difference-in-differences approach that exploits changes over time within countries in the duration and compensation of maternity leave benefits is linked to the year women were giving birth to their first child at age 16 to 25. Late-life depressive symptom scores of mothers who were in employment in the period around the birth of their first child were compared to depression scores of mothers who were not in employment in the period surrounding the birth of a first child and, therefore, did not benefit directly from mater...
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- Luci Tapahonso | An Afternoon with the Poet Laureate of the Navajo Nation || Radcliffe Institute
- Runtime
- 1:13:01
- Date posted
- 11 years ago
- Description
- Luci Tapahonso (6:23), inaugural poet laureate of the Navajo Nation and professor of English and director of creative writing at the University of New Mexico in Albuquerque, reads an assortment of her poetry followed by a moderated discussion with the audience.
Introduction by Kristiana Kahakauwila, Lisa Goldberg Fellow, Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study; assistant professor of creative writing, Western Washington University; and an instructor in the Low-Residency MFA in Creative Writing program, Oregon State University-Cascades.
Discussion moderated by Shelly Lowe (54:00), Executive Director, Harvard University Native American Program, will moderate the discussion with the audience.
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- Maharaj K. Pandit | Let a Thousand Gentians Bloom || Radcliffe Institute
- Runtime
- 37:54
- Date posted
- 11 years ago
- Description
- As part of the 2015–2016 Fellows’ Presentation Series at the Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study, Maharaj K. Pandit RI ’16 warns us that climate change and human activities are pushing the fragile ecosystem of the Himalayas ever so closely to instability and explains why Himalayan change is a global problem.
Pandit is the 2015–2016 Hrdy Fellow at the Radcliffe Institute.
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- Honoring Four Enslaved Persons in Harvard’s History
- Runtime
- 3:02
- Date posted
- 11 years ago
- Description
- Harvard unveils a plaque memorializing Titus, Venus, Bilhah, and Juba, four enslaved persons who lived and worked in Wadsworth House, in the households of former Harvard presidents Benjamin Wadsworth and Edward Holyoke.
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- A focus on earth’s other greenhouse gas problem
- Runtime
- 3:06
- Date posted
- 11 years ago
- Description
- Methane doesn’t get top billing in the global climate debate, but it’s a more potent greenhouse gas than headline-grabbing carbon dioxide and the major component of natural gas that heats our homes and generates our electricity. Harvard scientist Steven Wofsy is heading a project to both track escaped methane from our natural gas infrastructure and better understand carbon dioxide exhaust in the Boston area, neighborhood by neighborhood.
To read more, visit http://news.harvard.edu/gazette/story/2016/04/hunting-polluting-gases-around-boston/.
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- Ways with Words | Plays with Words || Radcliffe Institute
- Runtime
- 1:57:30
- Date posted
- 11 years ago
- Description
- PLAYS WITH WORDS
An evening about language and gender in comedy
WELCOMING REMARKS
Lizabeth Cohen, Dean, Radcliffe Institute, and Howard Mumford Jones Professor of American Studies, Department of History, Harvard University
COMEDY, LANGUAGE, AND GENDER
Aparna Nancherla (12:09), Comedian
ImprovBoston (51:06), featuring Sara Burns, Rosena Cornet, Deana Criess, Mike Descoteaux, Gregory Scott Hernandez, and Kelly MacFarland
Glenda Carpio (28:36 & 1:16:57), Professor of English and of African and African American Studies, Harvard University
Moderator: Robin Young (28:36 & 1:16:57), Cohost, Here & Now, WBUR and National Public Radio
Q&A (28:36 & 1:16:57)
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- Ways with Words | Beyond Binaries || Radcliffe Institute
- Runtime
- 1:57:32
- Date posted
- 11 years ago
- Description
- WELCOMING REMARKS
Lizabeth Cohen, Dean, Radcliffe Institute, and Howard Mumford Jones Professor of American Studies, Department of History, Harvard University
OVERVIEW (8:37)
John Huth, Codirector of the Science Program, Radcliffe Institute, and Donner Professor of Science, Harvard Faculty of Arts and Sciences, Harvard University
PANEL 1: BEYOND BINARIES (19:33)
For adults and children, gender identification is often tethered to language shaped by culture. This panel will explore how the use of language—particularly pronouns in different circumstances—childhood development, and social and gender stereotyping all affect the use and perception of language.
Rebecca Bigler (27:58), Professor of Psychology and Women’s and Gender Studies, University of Texas at Austin
Wesley Thomas (42:49), Professor of Diné Cultural Studies, Chair of School of Diné Studies & Law Studies, and Dean of School of Graduate Studies & Re...
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- Ways with Words | Janet Mock || Radcliffe Institute
- Runtime
- 1:16:20
- Date posted
- 11 years ago
- Description
- KEYNOTE CONVERSATION
Janet Mock, Cultural Commentator, Advocate for Trans Women’s Rights, and New York Times Best-Selling Author
Discussant: Moya Bailey, Dean’s Postdoctoral Fellow, Northeastern University
Q&A (46:33)
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- Ways with Words | Big Data || Radcliffe Institute
- Runtime
- 1:26:37
- Date posted
- 11 years ago
- Description
- PANEL 2: BIG DATA
The Internet, social media, and data mining have changed language and our ability to analyze usage, and increased sensitivities to the power of the words we use. This panel will explore how these new forms of discourse and analysis expand our understanding of the interplay of gender, personal narrative, and language, as well as data scraping that enables a statistical study of language usage by demographics.
Ben Hookway (7:43), Chief Executive Officer, Relative Insight
Lyle Ungar (20:53), Professor and Graduate Group Chair, Computer and Information Science, University of Pennsylvania
Alice E. Marwick (36:19), Assistant Professor, Department of Communication and Media Studies, and Director, McGannon Center for Communication Research, Fordham University
Moderator: Rebecca Lemov, Associate Professor of the History of Science, Harvard University
Q&A (52:02)
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- Ways with Words | Public Discourse || Radcliffe Institute
- Runtime
- 1:09:30
- Date posted
- 11 years ago
- Description
- PANEL 3: PUBLIC DISCOURSE
This panel will examine language used in the public domain and how it both reflects and shapes cultural attitudes toward gender. The question of who defines and controls language, and the role gender plays, is an important part of political campaigns, entertainment, and business marketing efforts.
Mary Mills (9:00), Worldwide Director of Strategic Intelligence, Saatchi & Saatchi
Christine Matthews (33:16), President, Bellweather Research, and Cofounder, Burning Glass Consulting
Liza Johnson, Director and Screenwriter
(Presentation by director and screenwriter Liza Johnson is not available due to incorporation of unreleased footage)
Moderator: Kathleen Hall Jamieson, Elizabeth Ware Packard Professor of Communication, Annenberg School for Communication; Walter and Leonore Annenberg Director of the Annenberg Public Policy Center, University of Pennsylvania
Q&A (49:37)
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- Can Professionally-employed Mothers Have It All?
- Runtime
- 1:09:12
- Date posted
- 11 years ago
- Description
- Can Professionally-employed Mothers Have It All? An Examination of the Relationship Between Social Support, Self-efficacy and Turnover Intentions of First-time Mothers Following Workplace Re-entry
The return to work following the birth of a first child is often a period of time when new mothers are working towards mastering the tasks associated with caring for an infant and managing their workplace demands. New mothers may consider leaving their organization if they question their ability to either effectively perform their job or their parenting roles. Drawing from social support and social comparison theories, this seminar explores how supportive work environments shape new mothers’ turnover intention. Using a sample of 695 new mothers who had recently returned to work following the birth of their first child, Ladge finds evidence that perceived manager support and role models who portray work and family balance influence both job and maternal self-efficacies, which...
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- At the Helm of Leadership in Government, Academia, and Foundations | Donna Shalala
- Runtime
- 29:26
- Date posted
- 11 years ago
- Description
- Donna Shalala, President of the Clinton Foundation, spoke at the Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health as part of the Voices in Leadership series on March 24, 2016.
Watch the entire “Voices in Leadership” series at www.hsph.me/voices.
The Voices in Leadership webcast discussion series at Harvard T. H Chan School of Public Health invites leaders to speak about their experiences making decisions that affect global health. Highly interactive and candid, the series is produced in The Leadership Studio for a student audience. The high-definition webcast is streamed live and posted for future viewing. Students learn from experienced leaders about decisions that were effective, decisions that failed, and which decisions, if any, could have been made differently. Watch the entire series at www.hsph.me/voices.
Donna E. Shalala is the president of the Clinton Foundation. Previously, she served as president of the University of Miami and Professor...
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- Where Do Planets Come From with Anjali Tripathi | CfA
- Runtime
- 56:15
- Date posted
- 11 years ago
- Description
- Understanding the birthplaces of planets is an ongoing mystery. Planets have been predicted to form from disks of gas and dust around young stars. New observations of these protoplanetary disks offer exciting evidence for planet formation in action. Speaker: Anjali Tripathi
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- Harvard health van brings care to the community
- Runtime
- 3:23
- Date posted
- 11 years ago
- Description
- Harvard Medical School’s Family Van reaches Boston’s underserved neighborhoods in the most direct way possible: by driving there. The van’s screening and referral services help bridge health inequalities by connecting local residents with a health care system that may otherwise seem distant and inaccessible.
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- Linking learning outcomes through curriculum mapping
- Runtime
- 1:08:15
- Date posted
- 11 years ago
- Description
- The Harvard Initiative for Learning and Teaching (HILT) welcomed MIT Professor of Aeronautics & Astronautics Karen Willcox on January 26, 2016 in a talk at Harvard titled, "Linking Learning Outcomes and Topics across the Undergraduate Curriculum." The discussion addressed the importance of creating a roadmap for students in the form of curriculum mapping tools that enable students to revisit, refresh, and reuse learning resources. Willcox and her team have developed three online tools – Crosslinks, Xoces, and Fly-by-Wire – that aim to identify and offset knowledge gaps and enable open source collaboration. Visit hilt.harvard.edu for more.
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- Design and Discrimination - Krzysztof Gajos
- Runtime
- 57:13
- Date posted
- 11 years ago
- Description
- The currently prevalent one-size-fits-all approach to designing digital products inadvertently---but inevitably---leads to discrimination by making some people systematically a little more likely to succeed than others. I will first show how current design practice discriminates against people based on their motor abilities, their ability to perceive color or their subjective perception of what is aesthetically pleasing. I will then present a Computer Scientist's approach to this problem: algorithms that automatically personalize design to provide more equitable access to digital resources.
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- Khalil Gibran Muhammad | How Numbers Lie || Radcliffe Institute
- Runtime
- 1:19:48
- Date posted
- 11 years ago
- Description
- “How Numbers Lie: Intersectional Violence and the Quantification of Race”
Tracing the genealogy of statistical discourses on race, Khalil Gibran Muhammad explores the violence of racial quantification on black women and men’s lives beginning in the postbellum period.
Currently the director of the Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture of the New York Public Library and a visiting professor at the City University of New York, Muhammad will begin his academic appointments as a professor of history, race, and public policy at Harvard Kennedy School and a Suzanne Young Murray Professor at Radcliffe on July 1, 2016.
Presented by the Schlesinger Library at the Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study.
Video:
Welcome by Lizabeth Cohen, Dean of the Radcliffe Institute
Introduction by Jane Kamensky, Pforzheimer Foundation Director of the Schlesinger Library - 6:55
Lecture by Khalil Gibran Muhammad - 15:50
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- Leadership In and Out of Government | Thomas Daschle | Voices in Leadership
- Runtime
- 31:20
- Date posted
- 11 years ago
- Description
- Thomas Daschle, Former Senator Majority Leader and Founder & CEO of the Daschle Group, spoke at the Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health as part of the Voices in Leadership series on March 8, 2016.
Watch the entire “Voices in Leadership” series at www.hsph.me/voices.
The Voices in Leadership webcast discussion series at Harvard T. H Chan School of Public Health invites leaders to speak about their experiences making decisions that affect global health. Highly interactive and candid, the series is produced in The Leadership Studio for a student audience. The high-definition webcast is streamed live and posted for future viewing. Students learn from experienced leaders about decisions that were effective, decisions that failed, and which decisions, if any, could have been made differently. Watch the entire series at www.hsph.me/voices.
Thomas A. Daschle is the Founder and CEO of The Daschle Group, A Public Policy Advisory of Baker Donels...
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- Email Archiving in a Curation Lifecycle Context
- Runtime
- 1:45:32
- Date posted
- 11 years ago
- Description
- A panel presentation moderated By Christopher J. Prom from the University of Illinois with presenters Glynn Edwards from Stanford University, Riccardo A. Ferrante from Smithsonian Institution Archives and Wendy Marcus Gogel from Harvard University. Brief presentations cover components of the curation lifecycle for email, stewardship functions (pre-acquisition appraisal, accessioning, processing, access, and preservation), issues, gaps, and tools. Originally presented at the Society of American Archivists in August 2015, the panelists have updated their content to reflect developments over the past six months.
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- Timing Cancer Treatment
- Runtime
- 3:23
- Date posted
- 11 years ago
- Description
- There may be an ideal waiting period for delivering multiple cancer drugs
Researchers led by members of the Department of Systems Biology at Harvard Medical School had been studying how silencing MDMX, an oncogene, affected the dynamics of p53, a natural tumor suppressor, in cancer cells when they realized those dynamics might affect the cells’ sensitivity to a second, chemotherapy-like treatment.
Learn more at https://hms.harvard.edu/news/timing-matters
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- Joyce M. Bell | Race and Resistance || Radcliffe Institute
- Runtime
- 35:04
- Date posted
- 11 years ago
- Description
- As part of the 2015–2016 Fellows’ Presentation Series at the Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study, Joyce M. Bell RI ’16 addresses questions about the legacy of the Black Power Movement.
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- Laboratory Evidence of the Effects of Sponsorship on the Competitive Preferences of Men and Women
- Runtime
- 1:20:57
- Date posted
- 11 years ago
- Description
- How can women get ahead in competitive fields? One proposed way is through sponsorship programs – where a person (the sponsor) advocates for a protégé, and in doing so, takes a stake in her success. While these types of programs have received popular attention, little empirical evidence exists on their effectiveness. Coffman uses a laboratory experiment to explore two channels through which sponsorship has been posited to increase advancement in a competitive workplace. In the experimental setting, being sponsored provides a credible signal of one’s ability and/or creates a link between the protégé’s and sponsor’s payoffs. She finds that both features of sponsorship significantly increase willingness to compete among men on average, while neither of these channels significantly increases willingness to compete among women on average. Similarly, sponsorship has a directionally more positive effect on the earnings of male protégés than female protégés. Therefore, sponsors...
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- Steven Spielberg to speak at Harvard University’s 2016 Commencement
- Runtime
- 0:40
- Date posted
- 11 years ago
- Description
- The genius behind Jaws, Jurassic Park, Indiana Jones, and more will be speaking at Harvard University's 2016 Commencement on May 26, 2016. Visit harvard.edu/live to watch the event live.
Read more at http://news.harvard.edu/gazette/story/2016/03/spielberg-to-speak-at-365th-commencement/.
- Title
- Ross Gay | A Book of Flowers || Radcliffe Institute
- Runtime
- 48:24
- Date posted
- 11 years ago
- Description
- As part of the 2015–2016 Fellows’ Presentation Series at the Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study, Ross Gay RI ’16 reads from his “catalog” of poetry, professes his love of the goumi berry, and attributes learning to read to following along with Maurice White’s lyrics while listening to Earth, Wind & Fire records.
Gay is the 2015–2016 Walter Jackson Bate Fellow at the Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study.
- Title
- THE POET’S VOICE: Joseph Donahue & Ed Roberson
- Runtime
- 1:11:49
- Date posted
- 11 years ago
- Description
- A reading by two of the most vigorous and unremitting visionaries of our era, whose City Eclogues (2006) and Dark Church (2015) have constructed such inimitable habitations for our thought. Roberson shares sections from a recently discovered 35-year-old manuscript of his recounting a motorcycle ride across the country, while Donahue shares passages from Dark Church. The reading is introduced by poet and scholar Keith Jones (author of Surface to Air, Residuals of Basquiat, 2012).
For additional information, visit hcl.harvard.edu/poetryroom.
Date: March 2, 2016, at the Woodberry Poetry Room, Harvard University.
- Title
- The Zika Crisis: Latest Findings | The Forum at HSPH
- Runtime
- 59:22
- Date posted
- 11 years ago
- Description
- The ongoing spread of the Zika virus — and its unconfirmed potential links to a birth defect called microcephaly — have raised worldwide alarms. This Forum examined what we know and don’t know about the virus, drawing parallels and lessons from another disease outbreak, Ebola, that we can apply to the Zika emergency. An expert panel discussed the current status of our understanding of the Zika virus and its health effects; containment strategies.
Presented March 4, 2016 in Collaboration with Reuters.
Watch the entire series from The Forum at Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health at www.ForumHSPH.org.
- Title
- Printing Vascular Tissue
- Runtime
- 1:12
- Date posted
- 11 years ago
- Description
- Printing vessel vasculature is essential for sustaining functional living tissues. Until now, bioengineers have had difficulty building thick tissues, lacking a method to embed vascular networks.
A 3D bioprinting method invented at the Wyss Institute and Harvard SEAS embeds a grid of vasculature into thick tissue laden with human stem cells and connective matrix. Printed within a custom-made housing, this method can be used to create tissue of any shape.
Once printed, an inlet and outlet own opposite ends are perfused with fluids, nutrients, and cell growth factors, which control stem cell differentiation and sustain cell functions. By flowing growth factors through the vasculature, stem cells can be differentiated into a variety of tissue cell types.
This vascularized 3D printing process could open new doors to tissue replacement and engineering.
Footage credit: David Kolesky, Lori Sanders, and Jennifer Lewis
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- Title
- What Works: Gender Equality by Design
- Runtime
- 3:04
- Date posted
- 11 years ago
- Description
- You are biased. So are the rest of us. It’s just how our brains are wired. And yet, we want to be able to work, learn, and live in a world that allows everyone an opportunity to succeed, no matter their age, race, or gender. By changing our environment, behavioral design nudges our minds to make better choices and moves the needle on gender equality. Understanding what works (and doesn’t), we can design our schools, organizations, and businesses to achieve gender equality. Learn more at: http://wappp.hks.harvard.edu/whatworks #WhatWorks
- Title
- Sir Geoffrey Nice: Complex Truths in Trials of Conflicts
- Runtime
- 1:55:18
- Date posted
- 11 years ago
- Description
- Introductions
Rakel Dink
Hrant Dink Foundation – Istanbul
Cemal Kafadar
Vehbi Koç Professor of Turkish Studies, Harvard University
Speaker
Sir Geoffrey Nice
Gresham College Professor of Law
Biography
Sir Geoffrey Nice worked at the International Criminal Tribunal for the Former Yugoslavia between 1998 and 2006 and led the prosecution of Slobodan Milošević, former President of Serbia. Much of his work since has been connected to cases before the permanent International Criminal Court – Sudan, Kenya, Libya – or pro bono for victims groups – Iran, Burma, North Korea – whose cases cannot get to any international court.
- Title
- When Neighbors Become Violent: Struggles with the Democracy of Everyday Life
- Runtime
- 1:21:18
- Date posted
- 11 years ago
- Description
- Nancy Rosenblum
Senator Joseph Clark Professor of Ethics in Politics and Government
Harvard University
Abstract
Our lives at home are afflicted by neighbors’ ordinary offenses. They are deranged by violent neighbors: random and organized violence, government sponsored betrayal and government condoned murder. Neighbors hold our lives in their hands. When elements of neighborliness survive extreme situations, they have extraordinary ethical force. Rosenblum shows why, and explores the significance of “good neighbors” for democracy in America.
